Will is in his final year at a NorthCoast High School. He lives in paradise but it feels more like Hell, doomed as it seems by the storm of his older brother Richo, who is addicted to Ice and caught up in a dangerous world of dealing and criminality.
Will meets Ulrike, a gorgeous young German backpacker, who gives him some glimmer of hope in a world beyond the horizon of his claustrophobic little beach town.
Will and Ulrike’s love develops quickly, but Will is denied his happily ever after ending as his connection to his older brother’s dark decaying world crashes down around him.
This coming of age hard hitting Art House Experimental dramedy deals with love and loss, addiction and compulsion, choices and consequences, sibling rivalry, attention seeking, risk taking, and heroic failure.

Part music video- part feature film - In the spirit of Alan Parker’s ‘Pink Floyd The Wall’ with a humorous dash of Guy Ritchie, but with the heart of Richard Linklater or John Carney set in the beautiful surrounds of Byron Bay comes this unique psychedelic soap opera.

It is a story of two brothers, growing up and growing apart as their family life and the Australian dream disintegrates around them. One likes the rush of the surf and falling in love, the other the rush of Ice and fast cars.

Throw in a gorgeous German backpacker, a single mum armed with rescue remedy, a hard nut bikie philosopher and a corrupt cop with issues of his own; contrast it with a stunning backdrop of a picturesque beach town and you have Hell is Light.

Will any of them find the freedom they so desperately long for?